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College Essentials 📓✏️
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By
Maddy Paige
Explore some of my favorite college essentials! As a 2025 grad, these were some things I couldn't live without.
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Dorm Essentials
Classroom Essentials/Backpack Supplies
Dorm Essentials
A mattress topper in your dorm with be a LIFESAVER. Make you sure you get a thick one for optimal comfort!
Gel Memory Foam Mattress Topper | Multiple Profiles | Lucid©
The perfect place to keep snacks, groceries, or other items!
Rolling Cart - Amazon
Great for keeping shoes, or other clothes under your bed and organized!
Storage Bins
I promise you, paper plates are much easier than trying to clean out plastic plates and cups in your dorm room after a long day.
Paper Plates - Walmart
Make sure you have enough chargers for both your dorm room and your backpack!
Charging Essentials - iPhone Accessories - Apple
A hard plastic shower caddy is the easiest to clean out, and can hold all your stuff in the communal bathrooms!
Hard Plastic Shower Caddy
Shower flip flops with holes are great, because they protect your feet, but also don't allow water to get trapped!
Shower Flip Flops for Dorm Room
Keep some pain meds in your room in case a headache comes on!
Advil Pain Relief Solutions | Advil
Cold medicine is ESSENTIAL. Everyone gets sick during the first or second month of school.
NyQuil™ and DayQuil™ SEVERE Maximum Strength Cough, Cold & Flu
A laundry backpack is the easiest way to do laundry in a dorm!
Laundry Backpack
Tide Pods will be your best friend in your dorm laundry room. Don't mess around with a big bottle of laundry detergent.
Tide PODS® | Laundry Detergent
You won't always have time to fold your laundry before class, so this can help out if you're ever in a pinch.
Downy Wrinkle Releaser Spray All In One - Amazon
They truly never put enough outlets in a dorm room. Save yourself the trouble.
Power Strips
The easiest and fastest way to clean your room up!
Clorox® Disinfecting Cleaning Wipes | Scented
You'll definitely want clean water in your mini fridge at all times!
Brita Water Filter - Target
Classroom Essentials/Backpack Supplies
Trust me, you'll need pencils way more than you think in college!
BIC Break Resistant Mechanical Pencil Lead and Eraser
Some classes require you to take handwritten notes!
School Notebooks
This water bottle is the perfect size to carry around from class to class!
FreeSip® Water Bottle - Owala
Always keep a few of these handy in your backpack!
Kleenex ® On-The-Go Ultra Facial Tissues - Pocket Pack
Great for those cold winter days when your lips get chapped!
Vaseline® Lip Therapy® Original Mini
Great for correcting mistakes in your notes!
Bic Wite-Out
I was never caught in class without my 40oz pink Stanley cup! Snag your own to stay hydrated all day long.
Stanley | Insulated Stainless Steel Tumblers
